Handle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE VOGL AND JOHN HESS, OF NEIVARK, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO ANDREXV I-I. FISHER, OF JERSEY CITY, NE\V JERSEY.

HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,070, dated July 2, 1889.

Application filed March 22, 1888. Serial No. 268,067. (Modeh) T0 [LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE VOGL and JOHN HESS, citizens of the United States, both residing at Newark, Essex county, New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This improvement is applicable to tea and coffee pots and similar vessels; and the object of the invention is to furnish a thumb piece or projection atthe upper end of the handle over which the thumb may be hooked inlifting the tea-pot to steady the same.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view and Fig. 2 an edge view of the handle-blank beaded and prepared for bending into its final shape. Fig. 3 is a section on line .1 9: in Fig. 1. Fig. "1 is a side View of the finished handle with the clip hinged thereon. Fig. 5 is a view at the right or outer side of the handle, and Fig. 6 is aplan of the same. The handle is shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 as formed with ends a and I), provided with feet a and b for its attachment to the vessel, and holes care shown in such feet in Fig. 5, by which they may be riveted to the vessel; or they may be secured with solder, if preferred.

The handle is shown herein formed of a single strip of tin or other sheet metalbeaded at its opposite edges, as in Figs. 1 and 2, and provided at its ends with flat portions (0 and b, and at its middle with an intermediate channel c, stamped deep into the metal between the beads (Z, and molded up to the surface of the flat portions at the extreme ends of the channel. The port-ions a and Z) are subsequently bent, as shown in Fig. 4, to form ends a and b, with feet a and Zr projected in the same direction, so as to reach down ward when the handle is applied to the vessel. In order to form a thumb piece or projection f at the 5 top of such handle-piece, the end I) is first bent acutely toward the end a and then out ward from the piece c, thus removing the end Z) a little way from the upper end of the handle and forming the projection shown in Fig. lto engage the thumb.

A wire may be extended within the beads throughout the entire length of the handle, if desired, and such wire being utilized to attach a clip 71 to the end 0 or foot I) for secur ing a cover to the handle, the wire in such case would be drawn out from the head at each side of the end I) and form a loop 1' adjacent to the foot 17 the clip 7L consisting in a fold of sheet metal bent around the wire loop, as shown in Figs. -;L and 6. Such wire loop may be secured in the bead upon the end 1) without wiring the rest of the handle.

Although we have shown herein the form of hanf L) to which we prefer to apply our improvements, it is evident that the same are equally adapted for use in connection with other forms of sheet-metal handles. \Ne do not, therefore, limit ourselves to the particular construction for such article shown herein.

Having thus set forth the nature of our invention, what we claim herein is A sheet-metal handle provided with end portions a and Z) and intermediate openchanneled portion 1;, with the portion I) bent acutely toward the end a and outward from the portion 0 to form the thumb-piece f, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE VOGL. JOHN HESS. Witnesses:

THos. S. CRANE, HENRY J. I\IILLER. 

